mmel Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 I have a question - do some schools send out invites to their own students first before expanding it to all applicants? Or do they all generally send them out at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigars53 Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Some invites are already out? But the recommendation letters aren't unmasked yet!!! I have a question - do some schools send out invites to their own students first before expanding it to all applicants? Or do they all generally send them out at the same time? I have not been aware of such practice last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmel Posted November 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Yeah I was definitely surprised too, didn't expect any invites until December. Thanks for the response about the home school invites, I know schools may interview home candidates outside of the traditional period so wasn't sure about inviting earlier as well. Some invites are already out? But the recommendation letters aren't unmasked yet!!! I have not been aware of such practice last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drake19 Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 I talked to my aunt who is a fellow who is part of an admissions team....she told me the reference letters help you if you have a well-known referee and/or they wrote amazing comments but for the most part she said most reference letters she has read over the years are pretty generic and obviously no one asks someone to write them a negative letter.....so basically letters are not the most important part .....your Dean's letter comments, red flags (failures, profesionalism question marks, etc.), and overall impression is by far the most important Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted November 29, 2014 Report Share Posted November 29, 2014 Some invites are already out? But the recommendation letters aren't unmasked yet!!! which is just odd but there you go. Supposed to be the second they open up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellorie Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 nevermind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scintillating Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 Do schools send "I'm sorry you did not get an interview" type e-mails or letters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drake19 Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 Do schools send "I'm sorry you did not get an interview" type e-mails or letters? No...if you get nothing assume you didn't make the cut.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Stark Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Do schools send "I'm sorry you did not get an interview" type e-mails or letters? Yes, most of the time they notify all applicants, albeit with some exceptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigars53 Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Do schools send "I'm sorry you did not get an interview" type e-mails or letters? Some do, some don't. It is usually written on their program description on the carms website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Some do, some don't. It is usually written on their program description on the carms website. yeah, it is strange that they don't all send it out but there you go. I mean if you apply to program X even if rejected that still most likely mean that the applicant will get in some where into the same specialty (I mean most people do get what the specialty they want). That means you just kind of disrespected in my mind essentially a colleague in your specialty. That seems just impolite to me - it isn't like medical school where there are 4000 applicants. This is more personal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactic Folly Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Perhaps they feel it's enough if they state an invite-only communication policy on the CaRMS website. Sending a regrets email does open the door to people trying to negotiate an interview after being rejected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Perhaps they feel it's enough if they state an invite-only communication policy on the CaRMS website. Sending a regrets email does open the door to people trying to negotiate an interview after being rejected perhaps but since they don't actually formally state anywhere that the invites are all sent out there is still this period of limbo. Plus it also means that if for some reason you don't get the invite email (tech glitches happen) you may incorrectly assume you are rejected. That has happened a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shikimate Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 So would you guys recommend sending some kind of follow-up email (like they do with US med school applications) to the program if let's say we don't hear from them by mid Decemer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dh79 Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 So would you guys recommend sending some kind of follow-up email (like they do with US med school applications) to the program if let's say we don't hear from them by mid Decemer? No, I wouldn't recommend this. At least not mid december. A surprising number of invites will come out through the christmas break and even early january. If you have a specific reason to think something went wrong, then maybe address it or contact carms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellorie Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 So did everybody get a little personalized one-liner from McGill psych? Kind of a fun strategy on their part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunoah Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 What was it? Didn't apply to psych, just curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricia_frances Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Was it in province students that got Manitoba Family invites thus far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellorie Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Just a sentence saying "we think you would be a particularly good fit for our program because" and then something from your personal letter or application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleDaisy Posted December 13, 2014 Report Share Posted December 13, 2014 Just a sentence saying "we think you would be a particularly good fit for our program because" and then something from your personal letter or application. Exactly aha ...my friends got that same invitational letter too....Good strategy from McGIll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sultanator Posted December 13, 2014 Report Share Posted December 13, 2014 Hey guys, we in Francophone medschool aren't part of CFMS and therefore don't have access to the famous CFMS documents containing previous years' interview questions/topics discussed. Was wondering if someone was kind enough to post it on the forum ? :-) Merci ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drake19 Posted December 13, 2014 Report Share Posted December 13, 2014 Hey guys, we in Francophone medschool aren't part of CFMS and therefore don't have access to the famous CFMS documents containing previous years' interview questions/topics discussed. Was wondering if someone was kind enough to post it on the forum ? :-) Merci ! You actually do have access follow these steps for the Quebec medical schools : http://www.cfms.org/reg-3.html They are not documents it's a like a forum like this one....I doubt anyone will take the time to copy/paste the forum posts...or better yet just ask a fellow medical stduent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sultanator Posted December 13, 2014 Report Share Posted December 13, 2014 I was trying to get the info without having to join CFMS and pay the fees that come with it... But thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellorie Posted December 13, 2014 Report Share Posted December 13, 2014 I actually DID put this into a spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bBr71SdO0c8V9ArzwEd8FFpN7h56wQorfmFiPatBdZM/edit?usp=sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drake19 Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 I actually DID put this into a spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bBr71SdO0c8V9ArzwEd8FFpN7h56wQorfmFiPatBdZM/edit?usp=sharing wow thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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